Suppressed for 70 years, the English version of China's April 1952 "Report on the Crime of American Imperialists in Spreading Bacteria in Korea" - 1st time ever online
With 7 chapters + Forward & Conclusion. Best copy I could find
The report begins with a long forward, which includes the names and titles of the scientific personnel involved in the investigation. 2/x
Chapter 1 concerns the evidence offered regarding the dissemination by U.S. aircraft of biological weapons via use of insect vectors and other inanimate objects.
Chapter 2 concerns the evidence of use of plague bacillus in the attacks
Chapter 3 summarizes evidence re use of cholera vibrios in BW attacks.
Chapter 4 is about the dissemination of germ-causing gastrointestinal infections, particularly use of salmonella & shiga bacteria. Interestingly, these were two types of bacteria held at the Ukraine biolabs prior to the Russian invasion.
Chapter 5 discusses the evidence re dissemination of anthrax bacillus
Chapter 6 is on dissemination of anti-crop BW, particularly that aimed at soybean crop. It's of a sabotage type similar to Unit 731, poss via joint Detrick-CIA Special Ops Division
Chapter 7 discusses confessions of U.S. POWs about BW program, and also interrogation of captured Korean agents dropped into No. Korea for surveillance on effects of the BW campaign. Very interesting aspect of the report!
The Conclusion of the report is eyewitness reports and material evidence gathered showed BW charges were true. The attacks were "large-scale." China notes Shiro Ishii was in Seoul in January 1952, implying Unit 731 personnel heavily engaged in this program.
In summary, this kind of historical material was withheld from American people by a huge USPS/Customs Service/FBI program to destroy publications from Communist countries during the Cold War. Now you can read for yourself & make up your own minds.
CIA programs you likely never heard of... a thread! 🧵
1) Project Redsox involved the illegal return of defectors & emigres to the USSR as agents. AEACRE set up a Domestic Ops Base for the interrogation, assessment, training & prep for infiltrating such agents into the USSR.
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"AEASTER was a program in near east areas to spot, recruit, and train Circassians and other Russian emigres and send them back into the USSR. Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project."
All programs/quotes from Nat'l Archives document:
QRDYNAMIC/QRPLUMB superceded Project AERODYNAMIC & supported the Ukrainian émigrés of ZP/UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council) w/ a NY publishing arm, Prolog Research Corp (QRTENURE, AETENURE), & in Munich, the Ukrainian Society for Foreign Studies (QRTERRACE, AETERRACE)👇
As someone who worked with victims of torture, and out of respect and empathy for those who did reveal operational information to their captors under torture (or threat of torture), I want to clear the air on the issue of the so-called efficacy of torture 🧵
First, the use of torture is always illegal and unethical. Its use destroys civil society and its institutions. But police & spy agencies repeatedly return to its use!
If you torture a person who is innocent or bereft of information, they very often will falsely confess to stop the agony. If you torture someone who does have desired info, they will *sometimes* provide authentic info to their captors.
Just where did Israel get its strategy against the Palestinians? From the British, who used to occupy Palestine themselves. A combination of terror via bombing and "dehousing" the indigenous population. More in 🧵
"On 30 March 1942 Professor Frederick Lindemann, Baron Cherwell, the British government's chief scientific adviser, sent to the British prime minister Winston Churchill a memorandum which, after it was accepted by the Cabinet, became known as the dehousing paper."
"The paper argued that from the analysis of the reaction of the British population to the Blitz, the demolition of people's houses was the most effective way to affect their morale, even more effective than killing relatives." time.graphics/event/5699385
THREAD: Canadian military magazine debunks myths defending SS Galicia: "The most common method that Nazi apologists use to defend the 14th SS Division Galicia is to cite the 1986 Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, often referred to as the Deschênes commission" ⏩
"Supporters of 14th SS say the Deschênes commission cleared the division & all its members of any involvement in war crimes.... critics labelled the commission’s report as a whitewash. The decades since have further reinforced that view as add'l info... [has] emerged." ⏩
Amazingly, I haven't seen anything at all on the 1917-1920 efforts by Britain and France to dismember Russia & establish zones of influence in Crimea, South Russia, and Ukraine. France alone had 60,000 troops in Ukraine by Feb 1919! Here's a thread on whole topic: 🧵
After Russia left WW1, Germany established puppet govts in Ukraine, Crimea & the Don region. With defeat in the West, Germany withdrew & the puppets fell. The anti-Soviet forces stumbled on political differences. The Ukraine nationalists, for instance, didn't want to be part of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A joint Anglo-French agreement in Dec. 1917 set the stage for UK- French intervention in early 1919. Britain concentrated on the Don area, Transcaucasus, & Central Asia. They occupied Baku and Batum. France entered Ukraine. Both supported Denikin's White Army fighting the Reds.
Huh!? I thought the balloons Japan's Unit 731 sent over the U.S. towards the end of WW2 carried no bioagents. But this 7/6/45 memo for FBI director Hoover's assistant, D.M. Ladd, states Japanese balloons found in N. & S. Dakota, & Nebraska, carried anthrax bacteria "in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I guess we were never supposed to see this FBI memo, as the footer clearly says:
"THIS MEMORANDUM IS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES
TO BE DESTROYED AFTER ACTION IS TAKEN AND NOT SENT TO FILES"
From a May 5, 2023 Time Magazine article on the Japanese WW2 balloons:
"From the perspective of the War Department and Army intelligence, the thing that they feared most was biological warfare. They inspected all balloons for any presence of biological agents, something that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…